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“Just about every day, customers crossing the bridges to Bellevue ask David Wasielewski when Din Tai Fung will come to Seattle. Now, the store’s managing partner has an answer for them: The wildly popular dumpling house, founded in Taiwan and franchised around Asia, will open a new branch in University Village later this year. … The new Din Tai Fung, expected to open around November, will be on the second floor of a new six-story restaurant, retail, and parking complex being developed at the shopping center. It will be slightly larger than the Eastside space — 8,500 to 9,000 square feet, compared with 7,000 in Bellevue — but will have a similar sleek decor, menu and signature “dumpling showroom” outside the front entrance.”
There is a Din Tai Fung in Bellevue, not too far from Seattle, which I have been to a few times in 2012 when I had a few business trips to visit the Redmond giant, which was pretty decent. I of course had some Xiao Long Bao, and also some shaved ice, which I hadn’t had in a loooong time.
I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
“Just about every day, customers crossing the bridges to Bellevue ask David Wasielewski when Din Tai Fung will come to Seattle. Now, the store’s managing partner has an answer for them: The wildly popular dumpling house, founded in Taiwan and franchised around Asia, will open a new branch in University Village later this year. … The new Din Tai Fung, expected to open around November, will be on the second floor of a new six-story restaurant, retail, and parking complex being developed at the shopping center. It will be slightly larger than the Eastside space — 8,500 to 9,000 square feet, compared with 7,000 in Bellevue — but will have a similar sleek decor, menu and signature “dumpling showroom” outside the front entrance.”
